Valentin Segura

Valentin Segura Flores (1957-) was a Colonel in the Chilean military who served as Director of the Peace Operations Directorate from 1998 to 2002 and of the Chilean Joint Peacekeeping Operations Center (CECOPAC) from 2007 to 2012.

Biography
Valentin Segura was born in Vina del Mar, Chile in 1957, and he was commissioned into the Signals Corps in 1977. He specialized in mountain warfare while attending the Chilean War College, and he led an exploratory expedition to Antarctica in 1990 and took part in peacekeeping missions in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Golan Heights, the Sinai, and elsewhere. From 1998 to 2002, he commanded the Peace Operations Department of the Chilean General Staff, and he worked for the UN after 2003. In 2012, he became a defense adviser to the Vice Minister of the Defense Office, and he went on to work as a UN military advisor after February 2016. He retired from the army in 2012 with the rank of Senior Colonel.